Again it seems you lot are a few hours ahead of me on this one, but I feel it deserves a post of it’s own, so here goes;
According to various sources and I’m going with Sky in particular;
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/12061767/matty-cash-aston-villa-agree-fee-with-nottingham-forest-for-right-back
We’ve agreed a £14 million fee with a possible £2 million extra in add-ons.
I’ve said previously that I haven’t really seen the right back position as so much of a priority as the left flank. I think Guilbert, with Elmohamady and even Konsa as back up was sufficient.
But hey, Dean Smith’s the manager and he probably knows a lot better than me.
In fairness, Elmo is getting on a bit now and he’s just signed a one year extension to his contract.
Hence it’s probably fair to think that we might look to let him go in the winter window, where he’ll still have some value.
So, yes, perhaps getting another RB in is a good idea.
The interesting question for me is will Cash go straight into the team?
I’d definitely think so, but it begs the question on what it is that Smith doesn’t like about Guilbert?
I mean, the Frenchman has often not been played even though he’s been available and it’s led to a few fans, myself included to be surprised.
I wonder if the player’s not happy at the Villa? But that’s me guessing and wondering again.
Anyway, I like this signing, assuming it actually gets done (and it should do if you believe we’ve already agreed personal terms) as from what I’ve been reading Cash is a good pro who’s willing to learn.
I think he originated on the wing and has been moved back to full back, which should mean that he offers good options on the attack side of our game.
My only concern about him is that his being somewhat inexperienced in the defensive position means his positioning can be poor at times.
It’s just a big bugbear of mine and is why I’m not massively keen on Targett and Taylor on the other flank, but apparently Cash learns quickly and hopefully we’ll see improvement in that side of his game under Smith’s tutelage.
So happy days then and it’s not before time.
Bring in some more signings, sharpish and I’m sure we’ll all be even more positive.
UTV!
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150 responses to “Cash in the bag? It looks like it.”
WE NEED A STRIKER! Hurry up and get one FFS. That’s my message to the powers that be at VP. I’m not bothered about Wilson going to the barcodes because he isn’t prolific and he is injury prone. I think we should be going full throttle in getting Watkins and Benrahma but I fear FFP and agents combined will see them going to a club that will pay more unfortunately.
£20m for Martinez is a joke! It’s far too much for a 2nd choice keeper. £16m for Joshua King might be worthwhile if we don’t get Benrahma although I think wages will probably prove a non starter. And definitely a no way Jose for a loan deal for Brewster. STOP improving other clubs squads.
I’m seriously concerned that our owners talk big about the future but right now we are amongst the favourites for relegation with the bookies and I can’t disagree with that. LESS TALKING, MORE ACTION!
Whose been a naughty boy then, two England player’s sent home over meeting two girls in the hotel after the Iceland match, Mason Greenwood, is one of them move over England team Grealish is coming.
You’d be up to the same if you had the money, Bill! 😁.
Josh King the latest link…. I so hope there’s deals we’re working on in the background as surely our scouting network extends beyond Brentford and the teams relegated last season. If not… major questions of Purslow and the board need answering.
The Birmingham mail have linked back to the Purslow interview in Feb(?) where he talks about how our FFP is based on two seasons of the Championship, meaning we can’t match average Prem wages.
This makes perfect sense to me and explains why we pulled out of the Wilson chase. Not that I understand why we were in for him except he’s probably about the best we could have done.
Which means that the very best we can expect is Championship or foreign players.
Wages will not be a problem there, so if the very best we can aim at is Watkins or Benrhama, I really don’t understand what we’re messing about at.
I don’t see us signing anything near a marqee signing and if the club thought Wilson might have been it, well………
FFP is also complicated by the ‘relaxation’ in the sums owners can invest in clubs because of the significant losses caused by COVID. It also seems that last season and this season are to aggregated together in some way although, the article I read suggests clubs are unsure about what that actually means.
I agree though, that it’s likely we will be only looking for players that will come to Villa without breaking our wage structure – so I agree with Badger that we will be looking primarily at Championship / overseas players.
If reports of the contract Wilson has secured at Newcastle are true then we were right to withdraw our offer – ludicrous sums and a 5 year contract! Ross McCormack anyone!
We are not rebuilding the team this window and we now have players (and a management team) with a year’s EPL experience under their belts. We are in a better position than last year but it will still be tough and we shouldn’t expect better than a lower half finish.
Let’s face it, whatever we do in this window, we’ll still be most people’s favourite for relegation.
What are the details of Wilson’s contract?
I can’t find anything.
I read £100k per week / 4 year deal with option of one year extension which Wilson has the sole right to call!
No thank you.
And the latest is that Guilbert is up for sale and we’re willing to let him go for £4.5 million.
WTF?
Have I fallen asleep and woken up in some kind of looneytune world?
How on earth can a player we brought in with no prem experience, who’s done well if you ask the fans, be worth less next season?
If this story is anywhere near true, I’m beginning to seriously doubt whoever is making these decisions.
I agree – I can’t understand that one if true. I mean, fair enough if we think he’s a liability but no way is he worth that much. I’d say he’s sub 10m now.
Have we given up on trying to buy the Brentford squad now, and now trying to buy the Bournemouth Squad instead?
Is the Watkins deal dead?
I can see us scrambling on the final day and having to buy the dross that no one else wanted.
Why on earth it takes 6 weeks of the window being open to buy our first player is beyond me
Chelsea bought about 5 players in that time!
Surely it works this way…
We identify a player we want
we make an offer
if rejected we make another offer
if rejected we move on
how does that take 6 weeks
I can see how clubs may delay responding to bids in an attempt to buy to for other clubs to join in a bidding war or in attempt to keep the player they are reluctant to sell and hope the interest dies off.
What I can’t understand is why we waited until a week after the last game of season to sack this DOF and bring this new fella. The team was struggling all season, if anything the last 4 games should have saved our previous DOF neck.
The algorithm I would imagine is pretty standard for identifying players and Dean Smith will have a good idea of what he wants.
“if anything the last 4 games should have saved our previous DOF neck.”
Yep, I suggested exactly the same in a previous post.
If the deciding factor as to whether Suso kept his job or not was survival, surely he passed, as much as many of us didn’t rate many of his signings?
Most will probably be glad Suso was sacked, as am I, but it still smells of a lack of consistency to me.
Thought I might mention about Villa under 21 tonight against Sunderland. At least it give us a chance to see what’s on offer. 1900 hr.
Looks like we have Ollie Watkins now lads! 1 more striker or a winger and a goalkeeper would be decent business, with the lads last season now having a full premier league season under their belt. Beating Arsenal in a warm up as well must give the confidence a boost to those that played. Grealish to score tonight (hopefully) and we have some reasons to be cheerful for a few days anyway 🙂
We should be going in for Batshuayi though. Top player and great business for Palace if they get him on a season loan. He would take the pressure of Ollie and a loan would be decent as hopefully Wesley coming back early next year will mean he is ready to go for the 21-22 season when Batshuayi returns to Chelsea.
Watkins for 33mil, sounds like a terrible deal, I haven’t seen every brentford game but I’ve seen all watkins goals, THEY ARE ALL SITTERS, we do not create sitters we create nothing, we need a striker that can change a game and watkins is not it I’m afraid. Eduard from celtic for an extra few million would be a way better signing, more goals, 19 assists, great dribbler, can create something from nothing. Waited this long for a striker and we get an overpriced championship player that scores tap ins, not happy.
Sky are saying £28m plus up to £5m in add-ons. Someone’s c**k is going to be on the block and it won’t be Lange!
That sounds an awful lot of money – hope he does better than our recent highly expensive Championship strikers.
Perhaps it’s a OK because he only wants £20k per week 🙂
Deal also being reported by BBC – so it must be true 🙂
So they’ve had us over, basically and must be pissing themselves laughiing. It’s embarrassing.
We should have made a couple of offers and then moved on weeks ago.
I’ll bet that’s exactly what happened last season with Benrhama.
Only this time we’ve swallowed it.
Totally agree Hitch, this one decision alone will sack whoever sanctioned it, if Watkins doesn’t come good.
Grealish on the bench – again.
It’s starting to look like Southgate will do anything to avoid actually playing him?
If there’s an upside, it’s that I don’t have to watch another boring performance by England.
No Grealish again. Disgraceful.
They definately don’t like him.
Not only that but picking Phillips ahead of Grealish after all that Southgate has said is an insult.
No doubt he’s had a word as Manure’s secret agent!
Foden and Greenwood get a private jet home and you can bet your life will be recalled for the next squad.
I’ll stick to the cricket tonight
Me too
no surprises for me no grealish in the England team. its a blessing really but i do feel the disappointment jack will be feeling now. but if he does play in this england set up under southgate. it will be a restraint one. jack is best when he is allowed to carry the ball forwards, take on players with keep feet he is amazing talent. but southgate doesn’t want this he wants robots. if he plays jack he will have to change to southgates way of thinking. pass square or back and move
I’m shocked, that twat Southgate dislikes Aston Villa you can see it now.,
under 23 are two down in cup, the thing with kids they are telented but can they cut it in the mans game. the physical side the second was a corner and we got bullied and we are all over the place from the corners high balls.
but this is good we are giving these kids this early experience, no such things as a bad experience as long as the kids learn from it
Can we just have a quick whip round in here please. I know the wages are something else to consider but for 33million what other striker could we realistically go for?
You never know how it will turn out. Villa outlayed a massive £8.5 million at the time for collymore and we all wanted him.
What a let down.
under23 (ourkids) scored from the penalty spot
2 1 now